By John Moltz
April 11, 2025 2:00 PM PT
This Week in Apple: Are we having fun yet?

The ups and downs of the tariff circus are making this writer sick, the sharks are out for Apple’s failure to deliver a smarter Siri and this last one… I’ll believe it when I see it.
I want off this ride
I’m starting to wonder if there’s any real reason to cover the tariff situation—it’s like trying to predict the end elevation of a rollercoaster by using its current position.
“Ted, we believe riders will have to be rescued by a hook and ladder truck, assuming there are no further changes to the rollercoaster’s position.”
Tariffs were on, then they were really on, then they were matched, then they got pushed back but increased… Honestly, it might change five more times before I finish typing this paragraph. This is no way to run a country. Or even a Blockbuster video in Duluth in 2010 that somehow fell off a corporate spreadsheet as the company was sliding into bankruptcy and was still getting payroll but not required to report any revenue.…